Jonathan C
April 3, 2018 18:31
My fiancée and I signed up under the guise that it was a month-to-month contract, we weren't actually given the contract to read, in fact they wouldn't even let us see the facility without signing up.
That should have been reason enough to go elsewhere. But we decided to try it out thinking we could try the other facilities if we didn't like this.
Selling points were a broken hot tub and a sauna, aside from that you could find the same weights, bikes, treadmills, etc from any gym in the country, and even several parks here in SA.
"events" ended up being run by "fitness experts" aka regular off-hand staff that teach you off a script that you could have just gotten off a generic fitness site, assuming they don't just straight up stick in a DVD.
Their "advanced body scanning" service is a glorified pole of depth sensors that could be easily beaten in quality by a measly Xbox 360 Kinect.
Several other gyms, all inconveniently dozens of miles away from each other and only half would take the membership anyway because of franchise differences. Even worse all with generally the same mediocre lineup.
And this is the shamble they want to charge more than TWICE the competition for?
We had gyms back in corpus that were better than this, in every possible way, for less, and corpus was a pitiful city all around.
The worst part was having to quit, when we attempted to, they finally let us read the supposed contract, it stated we had to be signed up at least 3 months to quit. Or come to the gym 8+ times the first month.
Conveniently none of the times we had come apparently got logged at all even though we had to use our cards.
This has to be one of the sleaziest, most dishonest, self-serving, shameful businesses in the entire city, and the issue goes well past the base floor staff, this problem is clearly at least with the franchise itself.
And if by any reason 2 payments from now cancellation becomes a problem, I'm going to be taking my grievances to corporate instead of piddling around with these blithering disgraces, if not just changing the payment method to a burner card and returning the favor of lies.